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Highwood once again is transforming into Pumpkin Fest headquar-

ters and going big!The Autism Society of Illi-

nois and the City of Highwood are proud to announce the 6th Annual Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival will be held October 9-11. Kicking off the Halloween season, this fan fa-vorite event will bring com-munities together while working to beat the Guinness World Record of 30,581 for most jack-o’-lanterns carved and lit at the same time (a record held by Keene, New Hampshire). The Great High-wood Pumpkin Festival will shine a light on hope, possi-bilities and options for the

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By Bill mclean Alicia Berneche watched Grease 2, the movie, decades ago. Michelle

Pfeiffer and someone named Maxwell Caulfield starred in it. It received exactly zero Academy Award nominations for movies made in 1982.

The snub did not surprise Ber-neche, an Evanston resident and a native of Kokomo, Indiana.

“Horrible movie,” she recalls.But the movie had a

soundtrack. Music appealed to

Berneche back then. Music is a huge part of Berneche’s life today. The opera singer has performed at Lyric Opera of Chicago and is a voice instructor at Glenbrook North High School in North-brook.

Oldies radio stations play all kinds of songs, delighting listen-

ers in cars, in kitchens, in dens. Some are iconic tunes. Some are ditties from flawed flicks. All tend to transport the listeners to another time, in many instances a better time.

“I’m 16 years old all over again when I hear Grease 2 songs,” Ber-neche says. “Movie songs take me

back; they’re like time machines. I get to feel again like I felt when I saw a certain movie and heard a certain song from that movie.”

Berneche and three other women — Amanda Horvath, Sarah Larson and Mary Robin Roth — will sing movie songs spanning seven decades in “Hol-lywood’s Greatest Song Hits,” a Wilmette-based Light Opera Works concert. The two-hour show, suitable for ages eight and older, runs Oct. 2-11 at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston.

Among the hits: “As Time Goes By” (from Casablanca, 1942); “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (from Buck Privates, 1941); “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” (from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969); “Nobody Does It Better” (from The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977); “My Heart Will Go On” (from Titanic, 1997); and “When You Wish Upon a Star” (from Pinocchio, 1940).

Berneche will sing the theme song from Titanic and “I Will Wait For You” (from The Umbrel-las of Cherbourg, 1964), among other songs.

“I’m in love with that song,” she says of “I Will Wait For You,” adding she’ll sing half of it in English and half of it in French. “Each of the women [in the cast] has her niche, her genre of music. What’s exciting for me is the op-portunity to perform music

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outside of my niche. Think about movie music … it’s not bound to one composer, and it’s not bound to one time period. I am having so much fun rehearsing, so much fun singing songs from the 1930s to singing power ballads [from the 1970s to 1990s].

“I walk around in public after rehearsals, looking like a zombie and mouthing words to all of these great songs. People must look at me and think, ‘What’s wrong with her?’ ”

Christopher Riley, Director of Audience and Press Services at Light Opera Works, has heard the cast rehearse in front of Rudy Hogenmiller, Artistic Director, and Linda Madonia, Music Di-rector and Conductor. Hearing an a cappella version of “Rain-drops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”

is “cool” to him. He finds himself — hears himself —

humming classic movie songs all day long. His dog, Sherman, hears his master hum during walks. What happens to a leashed dog’s gait when the dog is subjected to the catchy notes of “Puttin’ on the Ritz” from the 1930 movie with the same title? Riley must know.

“The songs that will be per-formed are great ones, truly great ones,” Riley says. “People who don’t know the exact titles of the songs know the songs because they’re all memorable ones. People, through the years, have heard bits and pieces of these great songs. Now, with this concert, they’ll be able to hear entire songs. To me, that’s excit-ing.”

To Berneche, singing is one of the perks of performing in “Hollywood’s Greatest Song Hits.” Dressing up is another. Stylists Jane DeBondt and Jesus Perez went the whole nine hem-lines to make sure each per-former looked the part for each song. The threads had to match a song’s era, glamour for “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Dorothy’s blue gingham dress for “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz (1939).

“They provided us with a huge stash of dresses and gowns,” Berneche says. “Looking at all of them and trying some of them on, it was like going through a candy store.”

Light Opera Works is a resident not-for-profit music theater, founded in 1980. The company’s mission is to produce and present musical theater from a variety of world traditions. Nichols Concert Hall is located at 1490 Chicago Avenue in Evanston. For “Hollywood’s Great-est Song Hits” ticket information and start times and other upcoming Light Opera Works productions, visit www.light-opera-works.org or call (847) 920-5360.

52,000 individuals impacted by Autism in Illinois, by striving to light a pumpkin for everyone affected, while raising much needed funds and awareness.

“52,000 jack-o-lanterns may be a big dream to carve out, but our true goal is to help raise awareness, acceptance and monies needed for advocacy outreach for Illinois families,” said Matt Ackerman, Executive Director of the Autism Society of Illinois. “All money raised in Illinois stays in Illinois and we strive to exceed the already ex-traordinary amount of $40,000 raised last year. With this event, we know it is possible.”

Fest goers will be thrilled to have their favorite activities back, including: all you can carve onsite pumpkins, the Great Pumpkin Maze sponsored by Home Depot, Trick or Treating, Pet Costume Contest, Kids Costume Contest, Pumpkin Parade, Pumpkin Pie Eating Contests, hay rides, pony rides, petting zoo, carnival rides, kids crafts, two stages jam packed with solid entertainment, seasonal food and beverage vendors galore and a 5K Pumpkin Run, Walk & Kids’ Dash!

All lit jack-o-lanterns will be placed on pumpkin walls throughout the Festival grounds, with a ceremonial wall lightings set to music Friday and Saturday nights, and the grand lighting on

Sunday evening.In addition, new highlights for

2015 include:• “Another Pumpkin on the

Wall” fundraising program for The Autism Society of Illinois, in which each section purchased represents 40 pumpkins for donor carving. Families and companies are encouraged to purchase these sections by texting “wall” to 91999 to watch them lit to music! Each brick will be labeled with signage, for easy recognition as they are lit.

• Attendees can “Adopt a Pumpkin” by texting “pumpkin” to 71777 to donate to The Autism Society of Illinois.

• Brian Larsen the winner of ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight” will be onsite setting the majestic lit pumpkin walls to music every night at 6:30, 7:30, 8:45 pm. It will be a sight to behold! His pumped up song list includes: Chicago Blackhawks Goal Song, Peanuts Theme Song, Jump Around by House of Pain, Turn up the Lights by Kanye West, Imagine by John Lennon and Last Dance by Donna Summer.

• Pumpkin seed spitting and pumpkin pie eating contests!

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• 9 am-9 pm EVERYDAY! Come out and carve pumpkins in front of City Hall (17 Highwood Ave.) with the goal of filling all the walls with pumpkins with special lights for the nightly light shows during the festival (don’t worry, there will be plenty of other scaffold-ing walls to fill thereafter!)

Friday, October 9:• 4 pm – Festival opens with rides, vendors, activities, all-you-can-carve pumpkin stations and more!• 4-6 pm- Young pumpkins are encourages to dress in their Hal-loween best to participate in trick or treating.• 6:30, 7:30 and 8:45 pm- Light shows on the wall presented by Brian Larsen of ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight”• 10 pm- Close

Saturday, October 10:• 9 am- 5K Pumpkin Run, Walk and Kids’ Dash to benefit Autism Society of IL• 11 am- Festival opens with rides, vendors, activities, all-you-can-carve pumpkin stations and more!• 11:45 am -Tito’s Vodka College Game Day Tailgate area opens12 pm- Meet & Greet with HGTV Cousins Anthony Carrino and John Colaneri• 1 pm -HGTV Magazine in-teractive demo – five ingredient centerpieces• 2 pm –Fastest Carver Compe-tition (North Stage)• 3 pm – HGTV Magazine in-

teractive demo- Fall around the house• 4 pm - Meet & Greet with HGTV Cousins Anthony Carrino and John Colaneri• 4 pm - Pumpkin Pie eating contest (North Stage)• 5 pm – HGTV Magazine in-teractive demo- That’s a Wrap• 6:30, 7:30 and 8:45 pm- Light shows on the wall presented by Brian Larsen of ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight”• 10 pm Close

Sunday, October 11:• 11 am- Festival opens with rides, vendors, activities, all-you-can-carve pumpkin stations and more!• 11:45 am -Tito’s Vodka College Game Day Tailgate area opens• 12 pm- Pumpkin Parade• 1 pm- Pet Costume Contest• 2 pm- Kids’ Costume Contest• 3 pm- Adult Costume Contest• 5:30- Record Attempt Official Lighting begins!• 9 pm Festival Closes!

Once again, this years’ Autism-friendly event will have a sensory quiet area located at the City Hall, 17 Highwood Ave.

In addition to these fundraising efforts, there will also be a $2/day admission. All the proceeds from The Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival will go to Autism Society of Illinois. Pumpkin Fest is made possible by generous sponsors including: Chiro One, Comcast, Gart Partners, HGTV, Home Depot, and many more!

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“Movie songs

take me back;

they’re like time

machines. I get

to feel again

like I felt when

I saw a certain

movie and

heard a certain

song from that

movie.”

–Alicia Berneche

Highwood’s Pumpkin Fest. submitted photo

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By Jake Jarvi

While many students start to seriously c o n s i d e r a vocation toward

the end of high school, Liam Diethrich from Highland Park had it figured out a little earlier. Right around the time he was finishing kindergarten.

“I knew that I wanted to play a musical instrument, so I started with piano for a month,” Diethrich says. “Then, I wanted to switch to violin. I just liked how it sounded.”

Now 13 years old, Dietrich has spent a majority of his life with the violin. He’s currently the first chair violin in the concert orchestra at Midwest Young Artists Conservatory (MYA Conservatory). Since that only keeps him busy one

day a week, he also plays with his school orchestra at Edgewood Middle School, he’s part of a string quartet, and he performs as the entertainment for the occasional fundraiser.

A little over a year ago, Diethrich found an even deeper way to engage with music. His great-uncle Harvey composed an original piece called “Rhapsody for Two Violins” that Dietrich could perform with a f riend. Seeing the possibilities, and having already taken three years of music theory at MYA Conservatory, Dietrich began composing his own original music.

His first effort, “A Happy Death,” ran 40 minutes long and took place in three movements.

“It was for two violins, two flutes, and two tubas,” Diethrich

says. “It ’s pretty much impossible to play. I didn’t really know how to compose well then, so it’s not the best thing

I ever wrote. After that, they became much more playable.”

He composed a duet for violin and flute to play with his

grandfather. At Interlochen Center for the Arts, a summer camp for musicians, he composed and performed a solo violin piece. For a Solo/Ensemble Contest coming up this February, Diethrich composed a piece to be performed on two basses, violin, piano, trombone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and horn for himself and seven of his friends. Its working title is “The First Friends Sonata.”

“I think of a melody and I’ll play it on violin,” Diethrich says of his writing process. “Then I write it down and add the chords.”

Finding time to devote to composing can be difficult. In addition to schoolwork, Diethrich has violin lessons twice a week and rehearsals with his various performance groups.

He also volunteers his time to Peer Buddies, an organization assisting students with special needs and he takes tae kwon do lessons, which he began taking around the same time he first picked up a violin. One wonders if he’s the only 13-year-old first chair violinist who’s also a black belt.

Despite the busy schedule, he’s still found the time to compose more than 30 original, classical compositions over the last year and a half.

“He just loves music,” says Paula Diethrich, Liam’s mother. “If we’re driving for five minutes, he’ll take out his computer and work on a composition. There isn’t always time between homework and practicing, so, in the car, five minutes, he’s got the headphones on, adding notes to a score.”

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Years in the making, High-land Park native Mary Morris’ melodic new novel

The Jazz Palace (Nan Talese/Doubleday) is now available through your favorite bookseller. Set mainly during the Jazz Age, the novel tells the story of two musicians, Napoleon, who is black, and Benny, who is white, and two women, sisters Pearl and Opal, who figure into the men’s lives. The Chicago-set novel features dynamic characters created by Morris, men and women of all ages and creeds who find ways to overcome adversity. Morris also peppers the novel with some of the real people from the era, in-cluding Al Capone. Morris, who is now based in Brooklyn, re-cently spoke with me about the book and more.

Presented by the Chicago Art Deco Society, on Oct. 20, Mary Morris will be at the Green Mill in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood for a reading and jazz performance from 6-8 p.m. She will also be at a Society for Midland Authors event at the Cliff Dwellers, 200 S. Mich-igan in Chicago, on Nov. 10, 6-8 p.m.

Gregg Shapiro: Mary, is there one particular source of inspira-tion that you can cite as the genesis of The Jazz Palace?

Mary Morris: Definitely my dad. My dad was born in Chicago in 1902. He lived until 2005 – 103 years. He was filled with stories of Chicago from that era. He fiddled with the piano. I thought he played pretty well. It’s really a lot about my dad and my father’s own struggle that he never articulated – perhaps between the desire to be an artist or musician and a businessman. He never went the musical route at all. My dad’s at the heart of the source of the novel.

GS: Are you musical?MM: It’s funny, yes, I probably

am. I love music and I always have music on around me. But I’m not very good at it. I try to bring music to my writing. I try to bring it to the page. I think I have a very good ear. I bring that to the sentences. I think part of my fascination with jazz is – how do they do that? How do they know how to do that? I think that even after the 17 years that I spent with this book I still am in awe when I hear

jazz musicians playing.GS: Was it fun for you to come

up with the song titles?MM: Oh, yes! There was a lot

of fun in writing this book. Cer-tainly the tunes were fun. At one point I worked with a friend who wanted to write some of the tunes. He did, in fact, envision them and we worked together a little bit like that. It was also hard work in that I’m not a musician, I’m definitely not a composer, and I tried to think about what you would put, what you would bring to your music. There’s a moment when Benny’s playing and he says, “This is the best I’ll ever be.” I feel as a writer that I’ve definitely reached those moments. There’s definitely a parallel there. It wasn’t easy, but it was fun.

GS: What can you tell me about your process when it comes to researching historical data for something such as the eastland disaster, for instance, which opens the novel?

MM: Everything for me begins with a story. My dad actually wit-nessed the Eastland going down. He was an incredible storyteller, but this was the one story he wouldn’t tell. He wouldn’t talk about it. We knew that he saw it, but we would never tell what he saw that day. I liken it a little bit to New York. My husband’s a survivor of 9/11. He can’t talk about what he saw that day and I understand that from my dad. This is not an autobiographical novel at all. I think I wanted to better understand what shaped my fa-ther’s character. I’ll always begin with a story and then I’ll go into the research. There was a lot of things that I learned when doing the research about why the East-land sank, for example. I looked at archival photos and newspaper articles at the Chicago History Museum; reading about the nau-tical issues that the Eastland faced in the first place, why it was so destabilized. The research only comes to me as part of the story. In fact, I know I’ve got the story down when I lose interest in the research. Once I know enough, I don’t need to know anymore [laughs]. I don’t really need to know how those ballast tanks get filled. I just need to know that they were empty.

GS: Benny is described as someone with “a propensity for disaster and a musical ear.” Is

that how you pictured him from the start?

MM: I always liked that sen-tence. That sentence comes from very early drafts and it is how I pictured Benny. I think those two things go hand in hand with him as they do with any artist. There’s always that thing that makes you an artist that is unknowable, in a sense. That’s pretty much how I saw him. Kind of a mess [laughs].

GS: Benny has synesthesia. Please say something about why you chose to give him that ability.

MM: In doing research about musicians I thought it was super cool. That comes out of research. I can share this one anecdote. I have a friend who’s a jazz musi-cian. I called him and was asking him questions. He said, “Mary, you shouldn’t have trouble with this, you’re not writing about mu-sicians, are you?” I said, “Yes, I am.” He said, “Oh, that’s not going to be easy.” And he was right. But I read about synesthesia and I thought it was interesting to see notes as colors and how that impacts on people who have perfect pitch.

GS: The rivalry between chi-cago’s North Side and South Side

goes way back. What do you remember about it from growing up in the area?

MM: Nothing, because we moved to the suburbs when I was a girl. I knew I wanted to write a certain kind of book. I knew I wanted Chicago at the heart of it. Initially, Na-poleon wasn’t really a character. That’s a whole other story how he came to be a character in the book. But I felt I couldn’t really write about Chicago unless I under-stood Chicago demographics. What the North Side meant and what the South Side meant. The more I read and the more I came to understand, including how dif-ferent gangs owned and operated different clubs, who ran the North Side, who ran the South Side and who ran the West Side. That came out of reading Chicago history and particularly biographies of Al Capone and the gangster era, which I loved. I devoured those stories.

GS: he’s a standout character in the book.

MM: Thank you! I probably

would have more with him, but it didn’t happen. When I was learn-ing more about Chicago, I read an Al Capone biography that said he was a great dancer. I thought, “I’ve got to make him dance.” That’s how the research weaves in and out of the story for me.

GS: In 2015, the same year that The Jazz Palace was pub-lished, Aviva Kempner’s doc Rosenwald is being released. Your book and the doc examine the relationship between the Jewish and African-American communities. Why do you think this is now a subject of interest?

MM: It may be a subject of interest because of how fraught everything is. How divided our country is right now. I do know that I have always felt that Blacks and Jews came from similar dis-advantages in the culture at certain moments historically. The immi-grant experience, the emigrant experience, the migrant, being

o u t s i d e r s , being places where they w e r e n ’ t a l l o w e d . E v e n though the Jews have fared very differently in this culture, I have often b e e n struck by the con-nections. I love

the connec-tion that Louis Armstrong had with the Karnofsky family who really encouraged him and got him his first cornet. In fact, he wore a Star of David his whole life in honor of them. I feel there is an affinity, but race just gets in the way. It’s really difficult to overcome it. I also think there are cultural affinities, for food, for music, for dance. I feel there’s a lot of affinity there but class has gotten in the way. Perhaps what’s more relevant is that this is a moment where race is playing out in such a public arena that we can pay attention to these things in a different way.

GS: In the book, you make reference to Balaban and Katz of movie palace fame. If there was a movie version of The Jazz

Palace, perhaps directed by Bob Balaban…

MM: What a great idea! I have to mention this to my film agent.

GS: OK. Who would you want to see playing characters such as Napoleon and Pearl and Opal?

MM: Well, you just ambushed me [laughs]. I’d love to see someone like Carey Mulligan. I could see her as Pearl because she’s beautiful, but not tradition-ally so. She’s beautiful in an in-teresting way. For Napoleon, David Oyelowo. I would love to see him play Napoleon.

GS: We are speaking shortly after the passing of Ragtime author e. l. doctorow. Would it be fair to say that you would like The Jazz Palace to do for chicago and jazz what docto-row’s novel did for New York and ragtime?

MM: That would be very fair to say [big laugh]. There’s nothing I would like better. There’s a lot of interest in the book in Chicago now. I feel momentum the build-ing in Chicago as more and more people are becoming aware of the book. Jazz Times just reviewed the book. They never review fiction, but they reviewed The Jazz Palace.

GS: Finally, Mary, do you have fond memories of growing up on the North Shore?

MM: It’s home to me. It’s more than memories. I’m very con-nected to that part of the world. I love to go there. I’m still friends with all the girls I walked to school with all through grade school. We get together a few times a year. This is an interesting factoid: there’s more magnetism on the shores of Lake Michigan than there is at the North Pole. I’ve always felt this tug of the lake and home. I have very fond memories and I go back as often as I can. My deep roots are there. In terms of the North Shore, for me it’s all about the landscape. And Ravinia! The music! I spent every night I could at Ravinia. (It was) very formative to me. You know how there are places you walk into and say, “This is my childhood”? That’s Ravinia to me. I would go to concerts with my parents. I would hang out on the lawn with my boyfriend. I heard many concerts over many years. Having Ravinia there was one of the great aspects of my childhood.

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Think back to when you were young and in love. Maybe your career was just getting

started and budgets were tight; you had no children to zap your

energy and drain your creative juices. Think about the creative things you did instead for roman-tic love.

Like the final scene in the 1984

John Hughes classic Sixteen Candles, when Jake Ryan picks Samantha Baker up from the wedding, and finally kisses her while they’re seated on top of the dining room table, illuminated only by the candles on her birth-day cake.

Or George Bailey’s wedding night in the rundown Granville house in It’s a Wonderful Life. George is called to the bank moments after he and Mary ex-change vows, leaving Mary to reimagine their honeymoon. She uses travel posters and their wedding gifts to turn the leaky house into a glamorous far-off land, and woos her husband all over again (while Bert and Ernie serenade them in the rain).

On television’s Friends, we swooned over Chandler’s pro-posal. He enters their living room (which Monica had filled with candlelight so that she could propose to him) and takes over the conversation after she starts crying. Chandler tells Monica, “I thought it mattered what I said or where I said it. Then I realized, the only thing that matters is that you…you make me happier than I ever thought I could be. And if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.”

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Consider the alternative. A knuckleheaded Romeo in Idaho

made headlines in September because he dragged a full-size patio grill more than four miles through the Sawtooth Wilderness in order to prepare a romantic lakeside dinner for his girlfriend. To get through the 217,000-acre federally protected area (where motorized vehicles are prohibited), he would have had to drag the grill through water crossings, over downed trees and up a number of steep inclines, according to people familiar with the area.

Extreme and inexpensive? Heck yes. Romantic? Sure. But something I would enjoy today, as I stare down my 12th wedding anniversary? Heck no. My first thought was that a lightweight cheap Smokey Joe could be found at the nearest hardware, and so how dumb does this guy feel for carrying the full-size grill all the way to the lake? Second on my list of objections is the four-mile hike; the sweat that I would produce going over downed trees

and hills would kill any romantic vibe this mope was hoping to achieve. I would need a nap lake-side, not a steak.

And so I can see that love evolves. As we mature and life becomes a crazy puzzle of career and family and community, the most romantic gestures change shape. They become a leisurely bike ride on a Sunday afternoon, or a shared morning walk to the nearest coffee shop. They are trips to the drycleaner without being asked, waiting in line for my fa-

vorite movie candy while I warm the seats, and gentle reminders to take your vitamins each morning.

If we looked for candlelight to remind us of how much we love the ones we’re with, we’d be lost. Look instead to the giant pile of clean laundry by the dresser and the gas tank that you don’t remem-ber filling up this weekend.

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hoLe in The WaLL: CharMinG, iTaLian dininG

By Simon murray

Walk into Francesco’s Hole in the Wall, in Northbrook, and you might

hear the crooning of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett on the speakers. Look around, and you’ll realize you’re surrounded by the black and white, autographed photos of movie stars: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Chazz Palminteri, Patti LuPone, and Joe Pesci.

Listen to your senses. Because they are telling you Hole in the Wall has some of the best Italian food in Chicagoland.

Frank Gallo has owned the Hole in the Wall for more than 34 years. In that time, it has undergone four interior design changes, as it outgrew its ado-lescence and needed to expand and mature, coming into its own. The petite, Italian nook became, in a word, “upscale”—Hole in the Wall has since become an affectionate misnomer—without losing an ounce of its rustic, old world charm.

“Come here, sit down, we’ll get you something to eat,” says Gallo. One of the first times I ever ate here was at a foldup table behind the kitchen. To get there one had to pass the chefs tossing red snapper and veal

shanks over the licking flames. More recently, Bears’ coach

John Fox and radio personalities “Mancow” Muller and husband and wife team Marianne Mur-ciano and Bob Sirott called themselves regulars. But it’s the local customers who get the star treatment. Gallo assures me that people come from all over the North Shore to sample the old world favorites and trendy new dishes overseen by his daughter, Lucy Gallo, a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America.

For such a small space, the menu is comparatively mammoth and worth the wait. (The Hole in the Wall doesn’t take reservations.) One of the trattoria’s entrees, written daily on a blackboard, is the osso-bucco with gremolata: fork-tender veal shanks, slowly braised with wine, vegetables, and herbs that dissolves off the bone into a creamy bed of risotto.

The recipe below is a deriva-tion of Gallo’s family recipe, rooted in Neapolitan cooking with influences of Northern Italian cuisine. “The trick,” says Gallo, is to get the veal shanks, “so tender, you don’t even need to cut it.”

Francesco’s Hole in the Wall is located at 254 Skokie Blvd in Northbrook.

TOTAL TIME: 1 hOurSErVES: 8

Francesco’s Hole in the Wall’s Ossobucco with Gremolata

• 2 tablespoons butter• 2 tablespoons olive oil• 5 pounds veal shanks, cut 2

inches thick, tied with string around their circumference

• 1 cup all-purpose flour• 2 onions, coarsely chopped

• 1 large carrot, coarsely chopped

• 1 rib celery, coarsely chopped

• 3 cloves garlic, crushed• ½ teaspoon dried marjoram• ½ teaspoon dried basil• ½ teaspoon dried thyme• 1 28-ounce can tomatoes,

drained and coarsely chopped

• 2 ½ tablespoons tomato paste

• 2 cups dry white wine or dry vermouth

• 1 cup chicken stock• 3 strips lemon zest, about 2

inches long• 1 large bay leaf• •4sprigsfreshparsley

Gremolata

• ½ cup minced parsley• 3 cloves garlic, minced• 1 tablespoon grated lemon

zest 1. In a large pot, melt the butter with the oil over moderate heat.

2. Dredge the veal in the flour and shake off any excess.Working in batches, brown the veal on all sides. Do not crowd the pan. Remove to a bowl.

3. Add the onions, carrot, celery, and garlic to the pot, cover, and cook until the vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes.

4. Put the veal on top of the vegetables, making sure the bones are upright. Sprinkle the marjoram, basil, and thyme on top. Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, wine, stock, strips of lemon zest, bay leaf, and parsley sprigs. If necessary, add enough water to cover the shanks.

Francesco’s Hole in the Wall’s ossobucco with gremolata

Frank Gallo

Osso Bucco at Francesco’s Hole in The Wall. PhotograPhy By Joel lerner

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Musings by Mike Lubow

North Shorts

“The Same Book Twice”

They say you can’t step into the same river twice, and maybe that’s true. But you

can read the same book twice if you want.

It’s a smart idea, as long as the book is good, and you liked it the first time around.

This opinion provoked dis-agreement and disapproval over deep dish pizza the other night in a North Shore restaurant. Friends said: “C’mon there are a million unread books to discover, why backtrack?“

Their argument almost worked

but not quite... Recently, you found yourself

recommending a novel to a friend who got an e-reader and wanted to start with something fail-safe.

The book you described was an old favorite of yours. It sounded so compelling that you looked it up again yourself. After scanning the first page you couldn’t help reading the second...then the whole thing.

How do you justify this? The answer hit with the feel of an epiphany: hey, you’ll listen to a piece of music more than once, right? Say you like the Beatles or the opera Carmen. You wouldn’t

say, “Been there, heard them, never again.” No. You’ll listen, and like them, time and again whenever you’re in the mood.

This is probably a matter of taste, sure. But speaking of taste, here’s the best argument for re-reading something you liked: take that slice of pizza you just ate as an example. Can you imagine yourself saying, “Yeah, I had pizza once. Really great, but I’d never order it twice.”

A pretty lame and limiting way to treat the fun things in life. Same goes for books. If you want to read a good one, get an old favorite and enjoy.

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The soccer ball rocketed off Matt Moderwell’s left foot. The Lake Forest High School

senior midfielder, from about 35 yards out, had hit the ball squarely in a match in Wisconsin earlier this month. Soccer balls hit square-ly tend to knuckle and swerve at high rates of speed.

The goalie eyed the Moderwell cracker and didn’t have to move much.

“The shot,” Scouts coach Rob Parry recalls, “was down the middle.”

The ball got closer, closer, closer to the goalie. The ball, though, hadn’t lost much speed at the end of its journey. Did it rise at the last second? It might have.

The goalie failed to stop the shot.Goal, Moderwell.“It was like a batter not being

able to catch up to a fastball,” Parry adds. “The goalie, at first, looked around, wanting to blame one of his defenders for the goal. I think the goalie eventually realized it was nobody’s fault. It was just a very good shot from a very good player.”

Matt Moderwell, a 5-foot-10, 170-pounder, is a very good Scout again. The Northwestern Univer-sity recruit had taken a season (2014) off from high school soccer to train and compete for the Chicago Fire Development Academy in Bridgeview. He started a combined 21 varsity matches and played in three others as a freshman and sophomore in the 2012 and ’13 seasons, netting seven goals and dishing seven assists. In nine matches for a 3-5-2 team this fall, the co-captain already has seven goals and six assists.

His point total (20) through Sept. 24 ranked first among team-mates. Scouts senior midfielder Keegan Kullby stood second (15 points — five goals, five assists).

“Matt,” Parry says, “is usually good for a goal each game and usually does something spectacular in a game. He’s got it all — pace, great dribbling ability, great shots with both feet. He’s got flair, too. When he “nutmegs” [scoots a ball

between the legs of ] a defender, he’s not showing off. He does that because it’s the right play to make at the time.”

Life is good for Matt Moder-well, sunny-skies-forever good. He helped the Chicago Fire Academy U18 squad capture a U.S. Soccer Development Academy national championship in California this past summer. He is back playing soccer for his school colors and with his high school buddies, and he will resume academy training after his final prep season. He gets to look forward to playing NU soccer with his brother, John Mod-erwell, next fall; John, a Wildcats

sophomore forward, missed the entire 2014 season with a foot injury. Matt Moderwell is also well on his way to building Bluetooth speakers in his Engineering Honors class.

He shoots. He scores. He aces difficult courses.

Who wouldn’t want to be Matt Moderwell for a week, at least?

“I love playing on this team,” Moderwell says of the LFHS team. “I had missed it.

“What I like most about soccer is the team aspect of it. I also like the flow of it, the chance to be creative, the chances to figure out ways to move a ball. You look at a

sport like football … there are too many stops in football. There’s action, and then there’s not action. I’m not into that; I like to be con-stantly moving.”

What he liked to do as a youth: take things apart. He disassembled remotes and bikes and other items and put them back together again, a curious kid with an industrious work ethic. Humpty Dumpty sure could have used a Matt Moderwell after that fall from a wall.

“I’m taking a class [Engineering Honors] with Matt,” Scouts junior co-captain Daniel Hanson, a forward/back, says. “Brilliant. He’s brilliant. He works hard as a

student and as a soccer player. That lefty shot of his is wicked, but what’s most amazing about him is how well he holds the ball, some-times with three defenders on him. Great leader, he listens to every-body, and he’s always got a smile going.”

Moderwell plays hockey for Scouts teams in the winter months, usually as a center or as a wing. His father, Charlie, played hockey at Miami University in Ohio. His mother, Lisa, was a gymnast. Mom Moderwell taught a young Matt Moderwell how to flip in the Mod-erwell back yard. The son was grateful back then. Still is.

“It helps in soccer, being flexi-ble,” the son says. “My mom helped me become flexible. It’s important to be flexible in soccer, especially when you’re trying to shield the ball against defenders.”

Before he could drive, Matt Moderwell relied mostly on his father to drive him to Bridgeview for Chicago Fire Academy com-mitments. Round trip: 92 miles. The son was grateful back then. Still is.

One of the most grateful coaches in these parts has to be Parry. Welcoming Moderwell back in August was like signing a coveted free agent — minus the multimillion-dollar bonus and use of a luxury car for road matches. Moderwell scored two goals in a 2-1 defeat of Lakes on Aug. 27, the Scouts’ second match of the season. Three of his shots hit a crossbar in the same contest. Mod-erwell struck for two more goals in a 4-4 tie with Bradford (Kenosha, Wisconsin) High School on Sept. 12.

He finished with two assists and the match-winning goal (on an assist from sophomore midfielder Jacob Danneker) in a 4-3 decision against visiting Zion-Benton on Sept. 8. The clincher came with a few minutes left in the second half.

“In that [Zion-Benton] game,” Parry recalls, “Matt had the ball on a breakaway, and the keeper made a save. He later had another break-away, and that time he scored. Matt goes to school on every play, pays attention, and then finds a way to take control. He learns something on every play, and he never makes the same mistake twice.”

Notable: Lake Forest High School senior midfielder Keegan Kullby scored his fifth goal of the season in a 1-1 tie with visiting Warren on Sept. 24. Classmate Matt Moderwell fed the assist. The Scouts received strong defen-sive efforts from freshman goal-keeper Guillermo Pons, senior Sebastian Ziaja and junior Daniel Hanson.

BY BILL MCLEAN, [email protected]

All’s well with Moderwell

soccer ace making the most of his second tour with the scouts

ten-acious: Matt Moderwell (No. 10) of the Scouts takes possession of the ball during earlier action this season. The Northwestern University recruit leads his team in scoring. photoGrAphY BY JoEL LErNEr

SPORTS


Dara Laja, known for his great vision, is a “now you see me, now you don’t” kind

of running back.He’s got the patience of Job

and the swiftness of a gazelle.The Loyola Academy running

back not only has the ability to bust tackles, but he also can tear off a long run in a blink of an eye.

And right now, the senior is on the cusp of something big. He’s worth keeping an eye on.

This is Laja’s Season of Don’t Blink. He needs only 438 yards to become the Ramblers’ all-time leading rusher.

On Sunday, there was a rare total lunar eclipse.

A day earlier, there was another Laja eclipse. He went over

100 yards rushing for the third game in a row in LA’s 35-7 victory over visiting St. Ignatius on Sept. 26. He capped his after-noon with a Laja-than-life 39-yard touchdown run just before halftime.

“He sees the hole well, and he’s got good acceleration and a lot of power,” LA head coach John Holecek said

The 5-foot-9, 180-pound senior has found his rushing rhythm. The Mount Prospect native earned the trust of LA’s coaching staff, and he has devel-oped into an important piece in the Ramblers’ high-end offense.

And on that long TD, Laja put all the pieces together: patience, power and speed.

He eventually was taken down where a running back doesn’t mind being taken down after a long run — one step inside the end zone.

“I thought I was tackled at the one-yard line. It was a little too close for comfort,” Laja said.

LA’s offensive line — featuring center Sam Badovinac (6-2, 250); guards Thomas Nute (6-0, 280) and Jack Badovinac (6-1, 250); and tackles John Brekke (6-3, 260) and Daniel Kurkowski (6-3, 275) — has become dominant.

“(On that 39-yard TD), the hole was pretty huge,” said Laja. “I’ve had some holes like that this year.”

He finished the game with two

TD runs and now has 10 rushing TDs for the season. And, after carrying the ball 13 times for 118 yards, Laja has amassed 506 yards this fall and 1,673 yards for his career.

Thus, he’s primed to break Loyola’s all-time rushing record of 2,110 yards. And there’s a coach on LA’s current staff who is clearly rooting for him: receivers coach Pat Naughton, a 1996 LA gradu-ate and owner of those 2,110 yards.

Naughton is a huge fan of Laja’s running ability.

“I like his vision, and I like how quickly he can get to the second level,” Naughton said. “He’s got

two speeds, and you can see him go from one to the other.”

In LA’s Week Two win over Brother Rice, Laja blew the top off his game. He ran the ball 31 times for 209 yards against one of the best defenses in the state.

“That,” said Naughton, “was a milestone game for him.

“That’s when Dara proved that he’s an old-school running back, who can run the ball over 30 times in a spread offense against a very good team (Brother Rice is 4-1 on the season),” Naughton added. “I was very impressed.”

Laja, who rushed for 1,066 yards last fall, has turned into a dangerous home run hitter. In the

past three games, he has TD runs measuring 39, 46 and 54 to go along with a 36-yard TD catch.

“His yards after contact have gone up quite a bit,” said LA running backs coach Ryan Gal-lagher. “He sees a seam, and he hits it.

“He can pretty much outrun anyone on the field,” Gallagher, a 1993 LA grad, added.

Besides making people miss with his quick-twitch moves, Laja also is running the ball with au-thority.

“I’ve brought more physicality to my game this year,” said Laja.

He added 10 to 15 pounds to his 5-9 frame in the offseason.

“Gallagher has taught him to run through tackles,” said Naugh-ton. “You see him out there, he’s always falling forward.”

“I really think he’s become a complete back,” said Gallagher. “He’s developed is receiving skills, which is something he didn’t have last year.

“And I thought he did a phe-nomenal job of blocking and protecting today,” Gallagher added. “And that’s something that he has to do, if he wants to play at the next level.”

It’s not uncommon for Laja to start slowly on any given Friday night or Saturday afternoon. Three of his first five runs against

St. Ignatius went for two yards or fewer.

“I think I’m too patient at times,” said Laja. “Sometimes, it’s difficult for me to tell when I should or should not be patient.

“But once I get it down … that’s when things pick up for me,” he added.

“He’s always been a patient runner,” Gallagher added. “But now, I think he trusting his ability more.

“And our offensive line allows him to pick and choose (the right hole),” Gallagher added.

Laja’s emergence has served his team well. He’s added balance to LA’s offensive attack. The Ram-blers have outscored their oppo-nents 201-31.

“Cover Dara or cover our big receivers,” said Gallagher.

“You have to pick your poison against us.”

Notable: Despite having several receivers sidelined, including Eric Eshoo, Robert Sullivan and Jake Marwede, LA’s passing game continued to shine. On the opening drive — seven plays, 66 yards — quarterback Emmett Clifford (13-19-1, 176 yards) tossed a perfect jump-ball pass (12 yards) to Thomas Smart in the right corner of the end zone. On the team’s third series, Jonah Isaac showed off sprinter’s speed by catching a deep slant pass and racing 66 yards into the end zone. And, with 9:09 left in the first half, Paul Escalante displayed plenty of grit by battling two Wolf Pack defensive backs and coming up with a two-yard TD on a simul-taneous catch in the back of the end zone. … Isaac was the team’s top receiver: 5 receptions, 122 yards. … The string is over. LA’s first-team defense allowed its first points of the season, when St. Ignatius’ Ryan Coolidge scored on a 22-yard QB keeper in the opening quarter. … LA’s defensive leaders were Jack Hough (6 tackles, 2 QB sacks), Ben LeRoy (6 tackles, QB sack, tackle for loss), Mickey Kane (5 tackles, 5-yard tackle for loss), Charlie Dreher (6 tackles, QB sack) and Graham Repp (4 tackles).

BY kEvIN rEItErMAN, [email protected]

one-der boy Lara sets his sights on breaking LA’s all-time rushing record

‘1’ to watch: Dara Laja of the Ramblers is on a roll. He rushed for more than 100 yards for the third game in a row in LA’s 35-7 win over St. Ignatius. photoGrAphY BY GEorGE pFoErtNEr


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A New Trier field hockey game ends. Trevians, most of the Trevians, jog toward

their bench to congregate briefly before forming a line for the post-game handshakes. One Trevian runs the other way, toward an adult on a sideline. The adult is holding a bag of cookies.

Rose Gorski, a 5-foot-8 senior defender, grabs the bag of goodies from her mother, Michele, and sprints across the field to catch up to her teammates. Teens shake hands with other teens. Rose Gorski then dishes cookies, rather than a field hockey ball, to her teammates. One for you. And you. And you. And …

Postgame assists galore, from the Trev who provided the assist [to Kitty Kenyon, a 2015 gradu-ate] on the game-winning goal in NT’s 2-1 overtime defeat of two-time reigning state champion Lake Forest High School in the state championship game last fall.

Consumers of cookies shout, at various decibel levels, “Thank you, Rose.” Rose Gorski had helped the Trevians win another field hockey game. Rose Gorski had baked the cookies.

“She’s very talented in many ways,” New Trier junior goal-keeper Therese Cooney, a 2014 all-stater, says.

Gorski, also an all-stater last fall, hears the compliment, smiles hard, blushes harder. It is her turn to say, “Thank you.”

How many times has New Trier field hockey coach Stephanie Nykaza thanked Michele Gorski and her husband, Bill? Too many to count, probably. Rose’s parents, after all, encouraged Rose to go out for a fall sport before the start of her freshman year. Their daugh-ter chose field hockey. Rose Gor-ski’s first organized field hockey game in a New Trier uniform was her first organized field hockey game. Ever.

“My parents,” Gorski says, “wanted me to make friends, and they thought playing a sport would help me do that. It’s still new to me, field hockey. I’m learn-ing every single day. The learning

has kept me energized.“I love this team. I love the team

chemistry, the really positive at-mosphere. We win together; we lose together. I value that kind of thinking.”

New Trier (12-4) routed visit-ing Lakes 11-0 on Sept. 24 and defeated host Oak Park-River Forest 3-1 on Sept. 26. Gorski, primarily a shut-down defender, scored a pair of unassisted goals in the win at OPRF. Nykaza values that kind of versatility.

“We let her play some [in the midfield],” Nykaza, a nine-time

state champion coach at NT, says. “Against strong teams, though, we put her at center-back, where she played last year. We have scorers this years, plenty of scorers. Rose is a key factor for us back there, a solid and calm athlete. Last year I noticed a tough player when I watched Rose play. She’s athletic, skilled, tenacious, a rock star for us. She has natural athletic ability, but she did not become as good as she is through that alone. Rose worked hard in the offseasons, put in the time.”

Gorski, explosive and powerful

and fearless, made Windy City Field Hockey (WCFH) club teams, practicing and scrimmag-ing among the best players in Il-linois. She played for a WCFH Flame team that topped the field at the 2014 National Festival Tournament. She was selected from a U19 USA Field Hockey Regional Futures event to compete at a Futures national event this past summer. All this from an “infant” in the sport. Gorski lost the pacifier and ripped the Gerber bib off in a hurry.

Gorski refuses to take credit for

her rapid progress and heap of honors in the sport. The credit, Gorski insists, belongs to Nykaza, WCFH owner and director Katie Beach (a member of the USA field hockey team from 1994-2004), current New Trier teammates and former New Trier field hockey stars, Katy Weeks (NTHS, ’13) among them. Weeks, the 2012 Illinois High School Field Hockey Association Player of the Year, was a New Trier senior when Gorski was a freshman. Gorski never got the chance to play varsity ball with Weeks, now a junior forward and

two-time Ivy League second-teamer at Cornell University.

Gorski watched Weeks play in 2012. Weeks’ play moved Gorski, inspired Gorski. Three years later, freshmen in the New Trier field field hockey program observe Gorski, wearing jersey No. 20, in varsity games. They see No. 20 dart this way. They see No. 20 dart that way. They conclude: No. 20, dominant and savvy, is a “10” on a hockey field.

But Gorski comes to a different conclusion. She looks at the New Trier field hockey roster, notices the jersey numbers of 24 team-mates and surmises, I’d be nothing without them.

“Rose is humble, extremely humble,” Nykaza says. “She’s a confident athlete, yes, but she’s also understated. She comes off as a hard-nosed athlete, but she’s a softy on the inside. And she doesn’t like attention. I love ath-letes who don’t like attention.”

Gorski made a verbal commit-ment to attend a college on the East Coast. Her plan is to major in hotel administration. Her major outlet will be field hockey. She will suit up and wield a stick for the Big Red of … Cornell University. Gorski will get to play, finally, a season of field hockey (the 2016 season) with Weeks.

“I can’t wait,” Gorski, flashing a goalmouth-wide smile, says. “I can’t wait for that opportunity. Katy Weeks, what an amazing player. I know I’m going to savor that opportunity.”

Notable: Trevians senior Sophia Crnkovich scored the other goal in NT’s 3-1 defeat of host Oak Park-River Forest on Sept. 26. NT junior goalkeeper Therese Cooney made five saves. … NT sophomore Hannah Roth tended the goals in the Trevians’ 11-0 victory over Lakes’ Eagles on Sept. 24. Junior Clare Kennedy struck for four goals, one more than senior Claire Weaver’s goal total. Crnkovich and juniors Nell Van Schaack, Bergen Soudan and Elizabeth Mather each tallied one goal.


rose rises to the occAsion

returning all-stater is a powerful presence for reigning state champs

cleanup hitter: New Trier’s Rose Gorski gets ready to powder the ball during earlier action. The senior has verbally committed to Cornell University. photoGrAphY BY JoEL LErNEr

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T he son reached into the hole to retrieve his golf ball. The son’s father videotaped the

moment, had to videotape the moment. This was big, a first. The son had just holed an eagle, from about 200 yards out, using a 3-wood in a tournament.

The son, Noah Fishbein, was 11.

The father/videographer, David Fishbein, was proud, soaring.

“He’s a great guy, generous and thoughtful,” Noah, now a High-land Park High School senior golfer, says of his father. “He taught me so much. His mental approach, that’s the strength of his game. He’s a pretty good putter, too.

“I’m sure I spent a lot of time near ranges when I was young, before I started caring about the sport. I started caring about golf when I was seven.”

People continue to capture Noah Fishbein moments on golf courses. See photograph, on this page. You draw that kind of at-tention when you’re one of the best players on a varsity golf team. Fishbein, a captain this fall and a fourth-year varsity member, won the Warren Invitational on Aug. 29, shooting a 70 at Bit-tersweet Golf Club. He carded another 70, third place this time, at the Buffalo Grove Invite on Sept. 5. His 73 at Twin Orchard Country Club in Long Grove was a fifth-place score at the Deerfield Invite one week later. He shot a 36 to bag medalist honors in a dual meet with Maine South in late August. His best ever nine-hole round? A dinky, snappy 32, achieved at Twin Orchard.

“He’s putting up some scores, isn’t he?” Noah Apter, a former Giants teammate and current Emory University freshman golfer, says. “He’s worked really hard at golf. He overcame some struggles, some inconsistences. He dealt with physical growth and a swing change.”

Fishbein stood 5-foot-4 and weighed 120 pounds at this time

last year. Today he stands 5-8 and weighs 136. Such a significant change in stature usually neces-sitates a swing change, along with steady shopping sprees for clothes. Fishbein made the golf alteration under the guidance of Brett Packee, a three-time Illinois PGA Award winner and an in-structor at Pine Meadow Golf Club in Mundelein.

The Giants’ varsity golf coach for the first two years of Fishbein’s prep career was Paul Harris. Scott Leibfried succeeded Harris last fall. Fishbein welcomed the new coach and pointed things out for the new coach, a teen fulfilling an invaluable role for an adult. Fishbein created a smooth path for the new coach; Leibfried found traction.

“Noah helped me learn the ins and outs of the job,” Leibfried recalls. “He is the consummate teammate. Noah is very passion-ate about golf at Highland Park High School; it is evident in his play and the way he helps his teammates become better. His teammates look to him to shoot low scores and lead us on and off the course.

“From [the start of the 2014 season],” the coach adds, “he helped carry on the tradition of what it means to be a Highland Park golfer.”

Fishbein shot lower than 70 for the first time in the summer of 2014. That breakthrough moment came at Mill Creek Golf Club in Geneva. He shot a 67. Not long after that he needed only 68 strokes to complete a round at a U.S. Junior Qualifier in Schaumburg. A competitive golfer’s favorite “weather” forecast is “a low in the 60s.” The super rounds of 67 and 68 lifted Fish-bein, especially north of his neck.

“My confidence went up that summer,” he says. “It’s what every serious golfer wants to do, shoot-ing in the 60s.”

Fishbein swung and putted his way to a 69 in a round at a three-day Mid-American Junior Golf Tour event held at the Illinois State University’s golf course

(Weibring Golf Club) this past summer. Earlier, in another tourney, he finished in eighth place with a 71-76.

“The challenges of golf,” Fish-

bein, a 2014 Central Suburban League golfer, says of what at-tracts him to his favorite sport. “That and the beauty of golf courses and the great opportuni-

ties to do something you love to do outside. Golfers, in general … I like being around them because their heads are in the right place. I’m still working on trying to be

as mentally strong as I can be when I’m playing.”

Fishbein used to like Tiger Woods. He now admires Jordan Spieth and Jason Day, a pair of sudden superstars on the PGA Tour. Good guys and class acts, both of them, cut from the Noah Fishbein cloth.

“Noah loves golf, loves to be around golf, loves to talk golf,” Apter says, adding his former teammate has a deft short game. “It seems he’s putting it all to-gether now. What he really loves is being a part of his high school golf team. I remember him as a great teammate, very supportive, always about the team. He wanted what was best for the team. He’s not an outspoken guy, not one of those let’s-get-every-body-charged-up kind of guys.

“He’s a quiet guy,” the Emory Eagle adds. “And a great guy.”

Notable: Highland Park was scheduled to compete Sept. 30 in the CSL Invite at Glencoe Golf Club. Glenbrook South (301) won last year’s league invite, three strokes better than runner-up New Trier’s total. … Highland Park senior Ben Udell shot a 77 to pace the Giants (320, seventh place) at the McDer-mand Invitational at Lake Bluff Golf Course on Sept. 25. Class-mate Noah Fishbein (78) was next, followed by junior Max Moss (82) and senior Griffin Burstyn (83). Host Lake Forest High School (303), Loyola Academy (310) and Glenbrook North (311) went 1-2-3. … Giants junior Ari Herzog carded a team-low 35 at the Highland Park Quad at Northmoor Country Club (White Course) on Sept. 24, two shots better than Fishbein’s round. Scores from Moss (39) and Udell (40) also counted for HPHS (third place, 151). Lake Forest High School finished in first place (149) behind medalist Jason Folker (35, scorecard playoff winner). New Trier (150) placed second, and Loyola Academy (155) took fourth.


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Focused Fishbein carding consistent scores for Hp’s boys golf team

locked in: Noah Fishbein shows his intensity during a tee shot at the recent Deerfield Invite. photoGrAphY BY JoEL LErNEr

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A few years ago, the sculptor Oscar Leon took a trip to Istanbul. A city of gilded

mosques, Byzantine architecture, and at least three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the trip abounded in ancient influences. He was blown away when he visited the Hippodrome of Con-stantinople. U-shaped, the impe-rial racetrack—flanked by obe-lisks and adjacent to the Hagia Sophia—is missing many of its statues. Some were destroyed. Others can be found today in museums as far away as Italy.

But the bronze base of the Serpent Column remains.

“Bronze can last millennia,” says Leon of the coiled pillar. “The heads were cut off, but the body remained. And it looks fantastic.”

The sculptor is sipping coffee and taking careful bites of fresh fruit and house-made granola mixed together in organic Greek yogurt. His hand muscles ripple with every bite; there is power in those hands. We’re sitting at Café Selmarie in Lincoln Square, and after we’re done Leon will meet with a local graphic designer friend to tinker with his website.

Owner of Sculpture Resource, Leon has had a long career working with bronze.

Many if not all of his commis-sioned works to date have been life-size representations. Most are of notable figures. These include Napoleon Dynamite for 20th Century Fox Studios, Frank Thomas and Nellie Fox at the White Sox’s U.S. Cellular Field, and a recreation of the frozen tongue scene in the “Christmas Story” for a welcome center in Hammond, Indiana.

Most recently he finished a fully interactive “Lambeau Leap” sculpture for Lambeau Field—

complete with a green wall and adoring bronze fans—a perfect photo opportunity for cheeseh-eads.

Leon prescribes to the hy-perrealism school of sculpting. He studied the renaissance and the masters: Michelangelo and Donatello, who cut from marble lifelike embodiments of the human form. Rippling sinews. Flowing garments. Quizzical, distrustful or haughty expressions that color faces; bestowing eternal life to the rigid.

“I really admire what they were able to achieve,” says Leon, “and today, most artists—most sculp-tors—have not even come a n y w h e r e close to that k ind of quality.” He pauses before a d d i n g : “There’s such a beauty in what was done so long ago where you feel like they could come alive at any given moment.”

Such thinking placed him in direct opposition with one of his teachers, the self-taught, Israeli-American artist Omri Amrany. Co-founder of the Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt-Amrany in Fort Sheridan, Amrany is influenced more by surrealism.

For evidence, look no further than his statue immortalizing Michael Jordan outside of the United Center: legs spread apart, mid-jump (a symbol that has since become ubiquitous) a pe-destrian defender dissolves into a blur of particles at Jordan’s knees.

Leon studied under Amrany (and co-owner Julie Rotblatt) for

almost 15 years; many of which he worked as an instructor to younger students. But after awhile, he realized he needed to distinguish himself and follow his own path if he was going to develop his own aesthetic.

Says Leon of Amrany: “After awhile I think I knew what I wanted to do and gradually, po-

litely, resisted [his] influence so to speak.”

Born in Highland Park, Leon spent his earliest years living with his parents in Guanajuato, Mexico. Nestled in a little valley between the mountains, the pic-turesque setting, off the beaten path, was a fertile place for a young imagination to grow. But

Leon says that it wasn’t until his

family started living in High-wood that he found his calling.

His father worked as a laborer, a mason; manipulating the world around him with his hands. “He would have some vision in his head and then actually execute it,” says Leon, which he found appealing; but not appealing enough to follow in his father’s footsteps.

By his own admission, Leon says he was a poor student at Highland Park High School.

When he graduated his father gave him two options: working alongside him at the construction company (“Which I was not too keen on doing”) or going back to school. Leon chose the latter, eventually gravitating towards the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago.

That spawned a career that continues to this day. One that, like Pygmalion before him, can be obsessive at times. And lonely.

“A reason why I immersed myself, and essentially lost my friends at the same time, is because I knew that if I worked 16 hours a day for however many months, that’s my only opportu-nity,” says Leon, who has been known to work ceaselessly during a commission. “That’s it. After that, it’s going to last hundreds of years.”

Recently, Leon has been hard at work with the city of Chicago to honor the victims, survivors, and the heroes of the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes: the SS Eastland. His concept (which he admits has been steadily evolving) incor-porates a larger than life black umbrella. (A common sight fol-lowing the disaster and days of Victorian mourning that fol-lowed.) Along the river edge between LaSalle and Clark St, or the exact site of where it hap-pened.

This past July marked the 100th anniversary of the disaster. With the help of Alderman Edward Burke and Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Leon plans to construct it “with no cost to the city” and with the intent of opening a pop-up studio downtown.

Says Leon, “Ideally, the fantasy version [is]: we start this and somebody else says, ‘I want you to do something when you’re done with this.’ And allow me to keep that space.”

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